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Back to Business: Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
For Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, this is the year the company can finally put its troubles behind it with new launches, a growing services business and, above all, a renewed focus on the customer
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Galileo takes over Trip.com
Jane Levere NEW YORK Galileo International, the US-based global distribution system (GDS), acquired the remaining 80% of web site Trip.com that it did not buy last year. The new purchase cost $269 million, in a combination of stock and cash. The web site, which uses Galileo as its ...
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767-400ER schedule set back
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing faces a delay to its 767-400ER certification and delivery schedule in the wake of its recently resolved engineering employees' strike. Before the 40-day strike by Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace members, Boeing was on target to certificate the -400ER in April and deliver ...
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FedEx studies head-up displays
FedEX is examining options to fit up to 290 of its jet aircraft with head-up displays (HUD) or enhanced vision systems (EVS). The programme has been launched to improve safety, permit operations to lower weather minima and broaden situational awareness. It was prompted by recent landing accidents involving the ...
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Carriers queue for La Guardia
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines are moving quickly to claim additional slots promised for regional services at New York's La Guardia Airport as the result of newly approved Congressional legislation. Contained in the US Federal Aviation Administration reauthorisation Bill is a provision to grant ...
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Starsem success in Cluster
Starsem demonstrated the flight profile for launches of two pairs of Cluster satellites in June and July, using a dummy satellite on a Starsem Soyuz Fregat booster from Baikonur on 20 March . The Fregat upper stage's first firing placed the Dumsat payload into initial low Earth orbit. The ...
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Zvezda is cleared for launch despite poor safety levels
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has cleared the launch in July of the Russian Zvezda service module for the International Space Station (ISS), despite US concerns about the failure of the Zvezda and Zarya modules to meet NASA safety standards, such as noise levels and pressurisation integrity. NASA says it ...
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BAE approves regional launch
Emma Kelly/LONDON BAE Systems hopes to announce the launch airline for its RJX regional jet family in the next three weeks following the formal launch of the Avro RJ derivative on 21 March. Peter Connolly, BAE Systems senior vice-president for sales and marketing, says an order for the ...
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Investigators throw light on MD-11 crash cause
Canadian accident investigators are again sifting the wreckage of the Swissair Boeing MD-11 Flight No SR111 to check whether cockpit map reading lights could have been the ignition source for the fire which brought down the aircraft, flying from New York to Geneva off Nova Scotia in September 1998. ...
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Lockheed Martin forms GPS company
Lockheed Martin has formed a new company, Synchronetics, to provide regional augmentation of the global positioning system (GPS). It plans to operate ground- and space-based augmentation systems that allow GPS to be used for air navigation. Initially, Synchronetics is targeting South America, says Dan Brophy, director of navigation services ...
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WAAS guides FAA to new approach
The US Federal Aviation Administration plans new categories of approach guidance based on the expected performance of the wide area augmentation system (WAAS). Details revealed at the WAAS users' summit in mid-March suggest the new levels will provide increased operational benefit earlier than expected. The FAA told users that ...
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Lasham, UK-based Triumph Air Repair (Europe) has renewed its three-year agreement with London Gatwick-based GB Airways to maintain its Honeywell GTCP 85 series auxiliary power units on the airline's Boeing 737s. Pan American has begun installing Raisbeck Stage 3 kits on its seven Boeing 727-200s, a combination of upgrading Stage ...
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Teledyne JASSM win revives Tomahawk hopes
Teledyne Continental Motors is to power Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM) with the J402-100, a new derivative of its J402-400 turbojet. The deal, which covers production of up to 3,700 units, follows the completion of a powered test flight at the White Sands missile range late last ...
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Maintainers record mixed 1999 results
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Troubled US maintenance and parts specialist Aviation Sales will take a charge of $72 million against yet-to-be-announced 1999 results, relating to a reduction in the value of inventory in its parts redistribution operations, plus four Airbus A300s which it is trying to sell or lease. The ...
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Air France/Delta court Aeroflot
Julian Moxon/BUDAPEST Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Air France and Aeroflot have agreed a deal that should see the Russian carrier join the former's global alliance with Delta Air Lines, while the French flag carrier is also emerging as the most likely partner for Hungary's Malev, with its Budapest Ferihegy hub. The ...
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Air Canada has appointed Calin Rovinescu executive vice-president (VP) corporate development and strategy. Rovinescu advised the airline on resisting a takeover bid by Onex, and on the acquisition of Canadian Airlines. BAE Systems has named Allan Cook as group managing director (MD), programmes and Eurofighter, replacing Steve Mogford, now one ...
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NASA stands up to Mars critics
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON NASA is braced for further criticism of its "faster, better, cheaper" approach, with release of an independent review of recent Mars mission failures due this week. In response to the expected criticism, administrator Daniel Goldin has warned that "NASA will not change course." The Mars Programme ...
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Delta discusses CRJ order with Bombardier
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines is discussing a major new order for the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) series and is studying a longer-term requirement for a larger 110-seat class aircraft. Industry sources say the Atlanta, Georgia-based carrier is in talks with Bombardier to order a substantial ...
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Sabre books business jet seats
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Airline ticketing specialist Sabre is to make seats on chartered corporate aircraft available to business travellers in the USA, through flightserv.com's Private Seats programme. Sabre has agreed to provide access to Private Seats through its Internet-based business travel purchasing system, used by more than 350 ...
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Performance snags delay first 728JET delivery to Lufthansa
Fairchild Aerospace has slipped 728JET development by six months because the 70-85-seat regional jet's performance would have failed to meet the requirements of launch customer Lufthansa CityLine. The US manufacturer claimed at the February Asian Aerospace 2000 air show in Singapore that the primary driver behind the decision to ...